Re: How French really should be spelled

I'm not terribly fond of the spelling, especially because
of the many different accents.  I'd use something only as
unambiguous an necessary, and not too far away from the
original French aesthetics, e.g.:

 p  t  c    b  d  g     m  n  ny
/p  t  k    b  d  g     m  n  J /

 f  s  ch   v  z  j     r  l
/f  s  S    v  z  Z     R  l/

 y  u  ou oi
/j  H  w  wa/

 i  u  ou
/i  y  u /

 é  eu au
/e  2  o /

    e
   /@/

 è  oe o
/E  9  O /

    a
   /a/

Having separate letters for /w/ and /H/ seems unnecessary,
since those only appear in combinations where their full
vowel value isn't an option...  personally, I pronounce muet
as /myE/, but Le Robert insists on /mHE/...  anyway, there
seems to be no phonemic distinction here.  Oua is a bit long
for the common combination /wa/, so the traditional digraph
/oi/ could be kept.

Write /A~ E~ o~ wE~/ as an, un, on, oin.  To write /n./, add
a schwa: gents -> jan, Jeanne -> Jane; un -> un, une -> une;
bon -> bon, bonne -> bone; moins -> moin, moine -> moine.
Schwas are mostly unpronounced in French anyway, so it's no
big deal.  Alternately, the n could be doubled: Jann, minn,
bonn, but that would definitely look unFrench.

The /L/ has become /j/ in modern French, so no letter is
necessary.

S'é trèz untrésan sesi, mè tu sè, lé Fransè von ryun chanjé.

Alonz anfan de la patri-oe
Le jour de gloir ét arivé
contre nou de la tirani.

Se sistème-si, n'ét il pa pluz agréable c'une véritable
armé d'acsan diféran?  Byun sur, lé Fransè ne l'acsèptron
jamè, mèz au moin il me samble c'il le détèstron un pti
peu moin ce se-la.  ;oP



--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Felix Ahlner <felix_ahlner@H...> wrote:

> Hmm, s'é tréz îtresâ sesi, mè ty sè, lé frâsè vö rjî câzé (rien changer)
>
> "Alôz âfâ de la patri-iö
> Le zur de gluar ét arivé
> kôtre nu de la tirani"
You use z for both /z/ and /Z/...  /twad@martinik/?  ;-)



-- Christian Thalmann

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